Rockin' Blues, R&B Greats, & 'Bad Seeds' Highlight 5th Annual SBMA's

(Photo Caption) - SBMA Executive Producer Ken Andrews (l) pictured with Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, legendary Motown vocalist, Brenda Holloway.

ROCKIN' BLUES, R&B GREATS, & 'BAD SEEDS' HIGHLIGHT 5TH ANNUAL SOUTH BAY MUSIC AWARDS


(IRVINE) -- From the electrified, rockin' blues of "Best Guitarist" recipient Jay Gordon (and the Penetrators); to an unexpected performance by Motown legend Brenda Holloway; to a rousing mini-set by reggae torch-bearers Tomorrow's Bad Seeds, the 5th Annual South Bay Music Contained something for everyone. Staged at the famous Improv in Irvine, the event included Pre-show interviews conducted by Radio Personality Mark Maverick of Indie 104 (IRadioLA).

After R&B vocalist (and the evening's emcee) Brandy-Moss Scott kicked things off with a rousing four-song set, the "Lifetime Achievement Award" was presented to renowned vocalist Brenda Holloway - who then proceeded to belt out a terrific rendition of the classic tune "Knock On Wood" that had the audience singing along with her. All these years later, the lady still has it!!! A quick one-song performance by South Bay faves (and "Alternative Group or Artist" winners) Hollywood Hot Rod was then followed by aforementioned Riverside-based blues-rocker Jay Gordon -- who, along with "Bassist of the Year" winner Sharon Butcher and drummer Mike Elliot -- brought the house down with a sizzling three-song set that included a kick-ass rendition of the Allman Brother's classic, "Whipping Post." Not long after a few awards were presented, Sacramento rockers (and winners of "Best Independent CD") the Grumpy, fronted by guitar ace Cameron Carbrey, took the stage and delivered, in the words of SBMA Executive Producer Ken Andrews, "a jaw-dropping performance...the power and energy they delivered to the audience was truly indicative of the passion they have for their music. I foresee many more awards to come," Andrews concludes.

After several other awards were presented -- including "Female Vocalist of the Year" Nicole Hart, who flew all the way in from New York to attend and who looked stunning in a short, body-hugging pink dress -- reggae group Tomorrow's Bad Seeds delivered a blistering two-song set with a chant at the end that had all the audience members clapping along with them. Though the evening was cut short and a few terrific bands didn't get to perform (Orange County's own/"Best Rock Band" winners Star Off Machine; Ninth Circle; and Intensity, among them)due to strict time constraints, all and all a good time was had by those who were there.

Below are all the Winners and their respective categories:

"Songwriter of the Year" -- Jeffrey Halford
"Video of the Year" -- Sid Z
"Bass Player of the Year" -- Sharon Butcher (Jay Gordon and the Penetrators)
"Guitarist of the Year" -- Jay Gordon (Jay Gordon and the Penetrators)
"Drummer of the Year" -- Dave Davis (Ninth Circle)
"Rock Band Or Artist of the Year" -- Star Off Machine
"Independent CD of the Year" -- the Grumpy (Throes of Contemplation)
"Male Vocalist of the Year" -- Howard McCullum
"Female Vocalist of the Year" -- Nicole Hart

"Song of the Year" -- Eileen Carey (for 'That Was Her, This Is Now' - Keith Urban/Vernon Rust)
"Country Artist or Group of the Year" -- The Flutterbies featuring Maureen Davis

"Keyboardist of the Year" -- Mark Nanni
"Pop Group or Artist of the Year" -- Hear Kitty Kitty
"Reggae Group or Artist of the Year" -- Tommorrow's Bad Seeds
"Blues Group or Artist of the Year" - Blues Gone South
"Jazz Group or Artist of the Year" -- Earl R. Johnson Jr.
"Best Live Group or Artist" -- Intensity

"Hip Hop Group or Artist of the Year" -- Young Scrap
"Alternative Group or Artist of the Year" -- Hollywood Hot Rod
"Techno Artist or Group of the Year" -- DJ Blake
"Pioneer Award" -- Fred Anderson
"Music Executive of the Year" -- Bob Cutarella
"Lifetime Achievement Award" -- Brenda Holloway
"Lifetime Achievement Award" -- Davie Allen
"Executive Producer Award" -- Ken Andrews
"Executive Director Award" -- Derrick "Big D" Butler
"Publicist of the Year" -- Doug Deutsch

Bad Seeds To Play the SBMA Indie Music Awards

JUST ANNOUNCED: RISING REGGAE BAND, "TOMORROW'S BAD SEEDS" TO PERFORM TOMORROW NIGHT AT 5TH ANNUAL SBMA'S!!


(IRVINE) - Rapidly-rising national record act Tomorrow's Bad Seeds have just been added to the lineup of great bands performing at the 5th Annual South Bay Music Awards, taking place tomorrow night, Monday, April 27 at the world-famous Irvine Improv. While mainstream music continues to become more commercialized and less visionary, many musicians aim to create music containing the substance that radio airwaves seem to lack. It is with this goal that L.A’S Tomorrows Bad Seeds has emerged onto the scene and is quickly gaining momentum as one of the hottest rising bands in Southern California. With a high-energy mix of Reggae, Rock, Punk, Soul and Hip Hop they create a refreshing and vibrant sound that can captivate any crowd.

Since getting together in ’04 they have been killing the United States playing such venues as:The Roxy Theater (Hollywood, CA) The Fox Theater (Boulder, CO), Ogden Theater (Denver, CO), Eagles Club (Milwaukee, WI) House of Blues(Chicago,IL, Dallas, TX, Hollywood, CA, Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL), Carolina Theater(Greensboro NC), Ram's Head(Baltimore, MD) The Filmore(NYC, NY). Along the way they have shared the stage with artists such as: Slightly Stoopid, Pepper, Steel Pulse, UB40, Pennywise, Strung Out, Half Pint, The Expendables, Hed(pe), Salvador Santana, Fishbone, Katchafire and many more. They have had the honor to support The Wailers on a national tour and did several headlining tours around the states as well.

Tomorrows Bad Seeds music is driven by its rumbling rhythm section, punching guitar riffs, Harmonic vocals and lyrics charged by day-to-day experiences, Love, and Politics. Tomorrows Bad Seeds often collaborate with other artists such as Philieano & Toko T (Skunk records), I-MAN (Capitol Eye), 2mex of sun god sons, Ero and AwdBawl (Second Thought), and many more to come! Tomorrows bad seeds released their debut album "Early Prayers" June 16th 2007 on UrbanTone Records featuring the singles Rhyme & Reason, Vices, Warrior Poet and Love Street.

SPREAD THE SEED!

Bob Cutarella To present Best Indie CD and To receive the Life Time achievment award

Its official the Last Day Before the Big Show... Get your tickets now. ...

Monday April 27 2009 SBMA Independent Music Awards 2009. Irvine Improve. Irvine Spectrum.

Heres a Peak at this years Plaques.....Come support your Favorite artist or Band and help them walk away with The Goodies...

5th Annual SBMA Awards are less than a week away. This Monday Night April 27 2009 is the big day. Come out support your favorite artist or band and also meet some Music legends. The Always Beautiful Brenda Holloway from Motown Records, Guitar players dont miss this chance to see Davie Allan considered one of the top ten guitarist of all time, Bob Cutarella World Famous Producer of Madonna, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd to name only a few.. Meet Niki n Shannon from Brett Michaels Rock O Love and many many more..... This is the place to see and be seen.

Tickets are still availble www.southbaymusicawrds.com
or www.irvineimprov.com

Hey Mo-Town Fans Brenda Holloway to be recieving The Life Time Achievment Award

One of the sexiest singers on the Motown label, Brenda Holloway was also one of its grittiest, with a strong gospel influence more typical of Southern soul than the company's usual polish. Best known for her ballad hit "Every Little Bit Hurts," Holloway also recorded (and co-wrote) the original version of "You've Made Me So Very Happy," which soon became a hit for jazz-rockers Blood Sweat & Tears.

Holloway was born in Atascadero, CA, in 1946 and grew up in the Watts section of Los Angeles; as a child, she learned violin and began singing in church with her younger sister Patrice (who later became a prominent session singer and contributed vocals to Josie & the Pussycats). After singing with the group that later became the Whispers, Holloway's first professional recording was made at age 14, backing 12-year-old Patrice on a locally released single. Brenda herself soon began cutting records on several different L.A. labels, and she and her sister also found work as session vocalists.

In 1964, Holloway performed a rendition of Mary Wells' "My Guy" at a DJ convention in Los Angeles. Motown founder Berry Gordy happened to be there, and he was so struck by the power of her vocals (not to mention her physical form) that he made Holloway his first West Coast signing, placing her on the Tamla subsidiary. Her debut single, "Every Little Bit Hurts," was an R&B smash that also reached number 12 on the pop charts, and was covered by British R&B aficionados like the Spencer Davis Group and the Small Faces; it became the title track of her first album, also released in 1964. Holloway also found fans in the Beatles, who gave her an opening slot on their 1965 American tour.

She scored several more R&B hits through 1965 -- "I'll Always Love You" and the Smokey Robinson-penned tracks "When I'm Gone" and "Operator." However, Tamla scrapped a follow-up album, which would have been called Hurtin' and Cryin', and Holloway began to feel that she was getting the short end of the stick. She frequently traveled from her home in Los Angeles to record in Detroit, and began to feel that the material she was given wasn't always up to snuff, perhaps because of her distance. She began to work more on her own writing, often in partnership with her sister, and with a bit of outside help they co-wrote "You've Made Me So Very Happy" in 1968. Holloway's version was a minor R&B hit, but Blood Sweat & Tears turned it into a major pop hit the following year.

Holloway's second album, The Artistry of Brenda Holloway, was finally released in 1968, but that year she announced her retirement from the music business, citing her disillusionment with Motown and her fears of being drawn into the stereotypical hedonistic lifestyle (which conflicted with her still-deep religious convictions). She later married a minister and raised three daughters, returning to music in 1980 with the gospel album Brand New. Holloway's records remained popular on England's so-called "Northern soul" scene, and in 1987 she traveled to the U.K. to record several Motown-style singles for producer Ian Levine's Motorcity label. In 1995, motivated by the death of Mary Wells, she returned to live performance around the L.A. area, often in tandem with fellow soul veteran Brenton Wood. She performed in the U.K. as well, and in 1999 she signed with the revived Volt label to record It's a Woman's World, which took a more contemporary urban approach. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

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Davie Allan (The Arrows) to be present and receiving the Life Time Achievment Award for Guitarist

Biography:
In the late sixties, Davie Allan & The Arrows carved their niche in the musical history books with an array of classic instrumentals and two dozen motion picture soundtracks.
The most notable of the movies were the cult classics The Wild Angels, Devil's Angels, The Glory Stompers and Born Losers.

Davie's more recent film work includes Jim Jarmusch's Night On Earth, Roger Corman's Not Like Us, MTV's Road Rules, Psycho Sisters, and From Dusk 'til Dawn, 2. plus an episode of The Sopranos in 2004 and Tarantino's Hell Ride from 2008.

In 1999, they won the “LA Weekly Music Award” for Best Instrumental Band.

In 1994, the critically acclaimed recording Loud, Loose and Savage (Top 10 CD pick ... San Francisco Chronicle, Guitar Player and Bam) brought back the "cycle-delic" sounds of cult legend Davie Allan.



LA Reader: "...perhaps the closest thing you'll ever hear to a combination of Link Wray, Dick Dale and Henry Mancini..."

Rolling Stone: "...the boss hogs of biker flick soundtracks..."

Flipside: "High priest of the fuzz guitar"



Some of the most notable record releases:
Blues Theme - Single (and LP) from the The Wild Angels(1967)
The Wild Angels - Soundtrack LPs, Volumes 1 and 2 (1966/1967)

Devil's Angels - Single and Soundtrack LP (1967)

Cycle-Delic Sounds of... - LP (1967)

Arrow Dynamic - LP (1985)

From Paradise To Hell - CD released in Europe (1987)

King Fuzz - LP from Australia (1989)

The Wild Angels and Other Themes - CD and Cassette (1993)

Loud, Loose and Savage - CD (1994) (re-released in 1999)

Chopper/Open Throttle - Single (1995)

The Wild Angels - Soundtrack CD and Cassette (1996)

Fuzz Fest - CD (1996) (re-released on CD and Vinyl in 1998)

The Born Loser's Theme/The Glory Stompers - Single (1997)

Bullseye-A Sixties Retrospective - CD released in Europe (1997)

Skaterhater - The Phantom Surfers/Davie Allan CD and Vinyl (1998)

Shape of Things To Come/Vanishing Breed - Single (1998)

The Arrow Dynamic Sounds of... - CD and Vinyl (1999)

Ramonetures - CD and Vinyl (2000)

Live Run - CD (2000)

Restless in L.A. - CD (2003)

Fuzz For The Holidays - CD (2004)

Devil's Rumble - 2 CD 60's Anthology (2004)

Apache '65 - CD (2005)

Blues Theme - CD (2005)

The Cycle-Delic Sounds Of... - CD and Vinyl (2005)

Cycle Breed - CD and Vinyl (2006)

Fuzz For The Holidays 2-CD (2007)

Moving Right Along - CD (2008)